Keith Juart met up with Taylor Williams in downtown Pittsburgh to buy four playoff tickets for the Penguins playoff game on May 1.

When PPG Paints Arena staff scanned the tickets, Juart and his friends were told the tickets were counterfeit and, "everybody's mood, everybody's heart just sank. We went to the window and the lady said yep, these are counterfeit, not the right event code."

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Juart reported the purchase to Pittsburgh police and then decided to catch the guy who sold the fake tickets himself.

He went back to Craig's List, where he responded to an ad for the tickets and spotted the same ad, and connected with the seller, identified by police as 28-year old Taylor Williams, of Bronx, NY.

"Saw a post, exactly the same. It looked too similar. He was still using the same wording, I replied with an email so we set up another exchange," said Juart.

However, instead of going himself, he sent a friend to meet Williams at the corner of Fourth Ave and Stanwix Street in downtown Pittsburgh.

The friend took Williams' picture while selling to other hockey fans and then called police.

Williams was arrested and police say in a criminal complaint that 29 alleged counterfeit tickets were confiscated, along with more than $1,000 in cash.